Fish swam further and dispersed more widely after exposure to environmental levels of drug and main metabolite

Traces of cocaine that pollute rivers and lakes may accumulate in the brains of salmon and disrupt their behaviour, according to researchers who warn of unknown consequences for fish populations.

Juvenile Atlantic salmon that were artificially exposed to the drug and its main breakdown...

Vox, a well-established retail ISP, is expanding its services to the wholesale market through aggregation.

The move by NTT Data comes as hyperscalers expand their Johannesburg footprints to serve cloud and AI workloads.

Whether the tech billionaire will attend the interview requested by Paris prosecutors remains to be seen.

Scientists at Wits University have designed South Africa’s first app to warn residents of pollution levels.

Whether Anthropic’s new Mythos model lives up to the hype or not, South Africa is not prepared for what’s coming.

Audit-driven security and fragmented tooling are leaving South African organisations exposed, cybersecurity experts warn.

admyt today announced that Discovery Bank cardholders will receive an automatic parking refund in Ðiscovery Miles every time they park with admyt and shop in-store. The benefit is now available across admyt’s network of more than 80 malls nationwide. Building on a successful festive-season activation, this first-for-South-Africa collaboration is now an ongoing benefit. It is […]

Today marks a pivotal moment for South African business within the hospitality sector with the announcement of a R750 million investment to develop the new Waterfall City Conference Centre and Hotel. The development is a strategic collaboration between Attacq Limited and Rabie Property Group. “Century City has shown what is possible when conferencing and hospitality […]

South Africa’s labour market tells two conflicting stories at once. In one, millions are locked out of work. In the other, businesses are starved of digital skills. The gap between them is where the country is losing its future. From our vantage point working with businesses across South Africa, this mismatch is not abstract. It […]

Mobile operators trail traditional ISPs in Opensignal’s latest comparison – though the report’s scope is limited.

A year after mishaps dominated the race, Chinese humanoids are outrunning professional half-marathon athletes.

First recorded in 687BC, the meteoroids were once part of the tail of a comet discovered in 1861

This week, the annual Lyrid meteor shower returns to the spring skies. Although active since 16 April, the shower peaks during the late evening of Wednesday 22 April and early the next morning.

The chart shows the view looking east from London at 00.01 (BST) on Thursday 23 April. The origin point of...

Zoological Society of London commissions poet laureate for animation to mark its 200th anniversary

Over its two centuries, acclaimed writers and artists have found inspiration at London zoo, from Edwin Landseer’s Trafalgar Square lions, to AA Milne’s naming “Winnie” after resident bear Winnipeg, and Sylvia Plath’s poem Zoo Keeper’s Wife.

Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes, who would become poet...

Artificial intelligence infrastructure is usually described through the most visible parts of the buildout. The discussion centers on megawatts, land, chips, and the pace at which hyperscalers can expand the physical footprint required to support increasingly compute-intensive workloads. That story is real, but it is incomplete. Beneath the visible race sits a second discipline that […]

The federal government directs more than $100 billion annually toward information technology, yet roughly 80% of that spending feeds the operation and maintenance of existing systems rather than building new ones. A July 2025 Government Accountability Office audit surfaced 11 critical federal legacy IT systems in urgent need of replacement, with some running on programming […]

Jeremy Hansen praised for speaking French in space after Air Canada chief’s linguistic snub exposed tensions and drew rebuke from PM

Few people foresaw humanity’s quest for the moon as accurately as the 19th-century French author Jules Verne, whose two works –From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon – anticipated many of the features of modern lunar exploration.

But Verne’s language had...

Our minds evolved to minimise unpredictability. But if we learn to live with doubt, a world of opportunities opens up

It can feel as though the world is tilting towards chaos: political shocks, economic instability, technological upheaval and a constant stream of bad news. Faced with so much uncertainty, many of us default to a sense of impending doom. But is that reaction hardwired – or can...

All good? Busy day? Small talk is a social good with a bad reputation. We dread it, but it’s vital for human connection

Hi there, how’re you? How’s it going? You alright? All good?

As any Briton knows, none of these questions is an inquiry into your emotional state, the material conditions of your life or your opinion on anything. Respond positively – “all good so far, touch wood” is nice...

Breakthrough prize in Life Sciences awarded to team who developed Luxturna therapy, which helped a patient see their child’s face for the first time

A married couple who met over a dissected brain and went on to create the first approved gene therapy for blindness have been awarded one of the most lucrative prizes in science.

Molecular biologist Jean Bennett and ophthalmologist Albert Maguire...

As the zoo celebrates its 200th birthday, photographer David Levene captures the people keeping their (sometimes very dangerous) patients healthy and happy. Introduction: Patrick Barkham

• Some images may be upsetting to young audiences

How do you shift a sedated rhino? Can a dormouse be drugged? What happens to a lion with an unusually small ear canal? How does the world’s longest venomous...